How to prepare students for the future

Challenges for Educators

Mirza Yawar BaigOpening the world, one mind at a time©

Work Experience: International Speaker, Trainer, Author, Coach,

Leadership Consultant with 16 years in Corporate General Management, 30 years in Training & Organizational Development, specializing in Family Business Consulting & Entrepreneurship

Director / Professional Member: Center for Conflict Resolution & Human Security Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science

Entrepreneur: 1994: Founded

Education: IIM-A , P-CMM®, MBTI©, WSA©, ISABS

Books: The Business of Family Business An Entrepreneur’s Diary Hiring Winners Leadership Lessons from the Life of Rasoolullah Leadership is a Personal Choice

Member Consultant Panel:USA GE Corporate University, Crotonville Oracle Corporate University, CA AMA International, New York Andersen Corporate University, MNIndia Osmania University, Hyderabad SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad SSB Academy, Gwaldam, Uttar Akhand LBS Academy of Administration, Mussoorie

Clients Include:GE, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, Digital-Compaq, National Semiconductor, Unilever, BSNL, Tata Indicom, Colgate, Asian Paints, Siemens, Wartsila, MphasiS, CavinKare, EXL Service, World Bank, ICRISAT, World Fish, Tata Corporate, J & J, Accenture, Zeneca Seeds, Shanta Biotech, Advanta, Reuters, Air India, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Olam, Regal Beloit, Reliance World, NIS Sparta, AMKA, Emami Group, Suzlon, JP Morgan, SEW Infrastructure, Rahim Afroze, Expolanka, Brandix

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To teach the child to succeed in a future that you know nothing about

Your challenge

Think of your role model

For how many of you is it a parent or a teacher?

What would your children / students say if I were to ask them the same question?

The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime

with

Why do you teach?1. History?2. Geography?3. Mathematics?4. Do your exam questions

reflect this?What if you taught keeping the real purpose in mind?

A system designe

d to create

obedient slaves

Define the ProductMethod will depend on the

definition

What question do we ask?

What was your rank? (Mark percentage)

What did you learn?

Is it a surprise that 85% of engineers are unemployable?

Define your roleTeaching him about flyingTeaching him to fly

Define our product: What are we trying to create?

What you need to create a plane is not the same as what you need to create a train

Changes must be made in both ‘What’ and ‘How’

Most important need

You can’t build an aircraft in a locomotive factory

Using knowledge – What new inventions? New knowledge – What new publications? Leveraging Knowledge – What impact in

society?

Assessment Parameters

Financial benefit is a byproduct

Our successful system Rewards compliance Punishes investigation, questioning,

change Focused on stuffing the head with random

bits of information – not on opening the door to lifelong learning

Tests random recall in a specific time window - examsHow many children read text books after the exam?

The TragedyIs that our system is highly

successful

21st Century LeadershipTo help them to thrive in a

world we know nothing about

If a system is to be judged by its results,

what should we say about our education system

looking at its result – our society?

Leadership through Education

What it is and what it can do

Real education Based on two principles:

1. Responsibility for what you hold in trust

2. Desire to make a positive difference

Our global problems today are not due to lack of resources but lack of accountabilityThe cure for that is a live conscience

Responsibility 1. Accepting responsibility for others,

adds value to us. After all that is what we seek all through our careers

2. Enables us to rise above our base desires and invokes the best in us

3. Is the only way to leave a legacy of honor

It takes courage to accept responsibility

Make a positive difference1. Helping others to succeed2. See value in it for yourself3. Payback for what we received –

build the bridge after crossing the river

WiiFM is a station everyone listens to

What we need

When was the last time that you rewarded a student for disagreeing

with you?

Question

Challenge

Change

What we produce

We reward compliance and punish questioning

Accept

Comply

Continue

What we must encourage

But we demand conformity and punish diversity

Curiosit

y Imaginatio

n

Creativity

What we must do

But we dampen and punishSt

imul

ate

Provoke

Engage

Education is not the accumulation of random bits of information, no matter how complex.

Challenges for Educators

21st Century and Beyond

“A forking time in history is a time of great instability. But it is the only time when the puny effort of a single man or woman can change the path of destiny.”

Food for Thought

But to apply effort you need to know the right direction

“Perspective is the ability to hold two pictures simultaneously in your mind… where you are and where you want to be. Growth happens because where you want to be is more important to you than where you currently are.”

Perspective

Without perspective you can never know the right direction

Changes thanks to the Industrial Revolution

1760-1820/40 to 2015

1. Time of day: Sun to shift bell2. Parental role: Life coach to wage earner 3. Source of knowledge: Parent to Teacher4. Concern: Collective to individual

Industrial Revolution changed

We’re all part of this – not standing outside

Challenge To deal with rapid disruptive change

Future change will take years where past change took centuries

1.Goals: Primarily non-monetary to money

2.Success: Long term to short term3.Human value: Honor to money 4.Net worth: Learning and Character to

Bank balance5.Progress: Rapid continuous growth in

net worth

Changes – Industrial Revolution

Programmed dissatisfaction

Knowledge ‘Workers’ Huge increase in technology: Workers from developing

countries Complexity: Migration to developed countries

Formal education required Manual worker today needs technical education Higher expectations and demands Higher spending potential

Change of values, ethics, morals, culture, focus, aspirations, education

Lessons from Industrial revolution in social change

1. Do we see ourselves as Key Influencers?2. What is the evidence of that in what we

teach and how?3. What is our connection to the real world

to ensure relevance?4. What are our metrics of success?

Key Questions

What you don’t measure, you can’t know or guarantee

With respect to Change: To Survive Adapt Grow Anticipate Transform Drive / Initiate

So what do we need to change?

Global ChallengesOf the new world

The first commercial text message was sent in 1992

Today (2015) the total number of text messages exchanged is 350

billion exceeds the entire population of the planet by 5 times

(7 Billion)

Years to reach an audience of 50 million

38 years

35 days3 years

3.5 years

4 years 13 years

Number of internet devices

In 1984 1000

2016(projected) 64,000,000,000

There are 1,025,109 words in English (2015)

In 1950 it was 500,000

Researchers have developed a new fibre optic technology capable of transferring data at a rate of 255 terabits per

second (Tbps)

- more data than the total traffic flowing across the internet at peak

time.

So what does it all MEAN for

you as a teacher??

Essence of it all Faster and easier access to information Hugely enhanced computation power Huge information storages Hugely fast searches Potential to forecast scenarios, prepare

for eventualities, predict outcomes, options

Potential to control, influence, track, help, network, leverage, surveillance, security, share, empower and earn

Operative Questions What are our criteria of judgment? What values will drive our decisions? What is the cost of change? What is the price of not changing? What demands will the new

generations have? How will these be fulfilled?

Integrated TeachingA brief glimpse

Connectivity: Show links between subjects

Utility: Show how these apply in real life

Curiosity: Raise questions

Integrated Holistic Teaching

What do the majority of students do with text books once the course

is over?

Class Room Students of multiple ages Several teachers – subject wise +

class teacher Self-learning and discovery Teachers provide support only

Text books dumb down knowledge. Teach original texts

Project: Oceans Biology: Marine plants & animals Physics: Displacement floats ships Chemistry: Why is sea water salty? Geography: Navigation, Orienteering, sailing, Engineering: Ship building History: Maritime history of nations, colonial

domination Trade: Routes, goods, cultural & population

changeLiving knowledge applied in context

Project: Mountains Geology: Isostacy of mountains:

Stabilizing effect Geography: How mountains effect

climate Biology: Mountain flora & fauna History: How mountains affected history

of nationsDraw lessons to connect to

current events

How?Recognize the

problem and seek solutions

O! Teacher, stop teaching

And start learning

Daily Self-assessment Start discovering, learning, enjoying. Start appreciating that the student is

the best thing that happened to you and every single day try to become the best thing that happens to him or her.

‘If you want to know what someone values, see what they measure.’ ~ Mikel Harry (Motorola, 6 – Sigma Quality)

Ushers – not teachers Teachers must never teach. They must be like ushers in a vast

museum, walking quietly with their students tiptoeing behind them, opening one door after another – letting them take a peek – and then handing them the key to the door so that they can come back and explore in detail.Is every day exciting?

Give them the keys The teacher then takes them to

another door for another peek and another key. See??

Imagine how exciting that is for the student! 

The teacher’s job is to give them the keys.Teaching is about asking

questions – and teaching them to ask questions.

Ask questions Reward the best question The teacher who gives answers has

failed. Let them find the answers and be

prepared for answers you didn’t ever think aboutThe best question is the one that

left you speechless

It’s not about today

Teaching is about keeping the

excitement of learning alive all

lifelong.

Consider Our present system of teaching discrete

subjects from text books, dictating notes, model question papers and cramming factories to pass exams from the perspective of real EDUCATION

So what are we really trying to achieve?

And we actually reward this violence

What do you call? Someone who studied something full time

for 15 years? What do you call someone who passes the

12th exam? So what was achieved in 15 years of

schooling?

And we actually get paid for it

Do you really want to change?

1.What is the cost of changing?2.What is the cost of not changing?3.What will be easy?4.What will be difficult?5.What are you willing to do to make it

happen?Results are directly proportional to effort

Success is a process of connecting aspirations

to reality

InvestmentCommitmentAdaptabilityPersistence

Ambivalence Passion

If you want to be successful you must

respect one rule: Never lie to yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho

‘SMART’ Goals1. Specific2. Measurable3. Actionable4. Realistic5. Time bound

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What is my investment?

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